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when you go through dark seasons, you will be restricted by, or released to, what has already been established within your soul.
the road to success and the road to a nervous breakdown were one and the same.
Suffering will change us, but not necessarily for the better. We have to choose that. And it was the choosing that made all the difference for me.
I had developed the discipline of image management, but on the inside I was experiencing a slow-motion implosion.
I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me.
Then success is no longer your goal. Healing is.
Unresolved problems are like unresolved debts. You know they’re there, but you just can’t bring yourself to deal with them.
But there was a growing disconnect between who I was up front and who I was in private.
Sometimes we get so busy rowing the boat, we don’t take the time to stop and see where we’re going . . . or what we are becoming.
If you had only one month left to live, you’d be surprised at all the things that really didn’t matter anymore.
Many times we won’t make major course corrections until the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of making the change.
“It’s the space between the notes that makes the music.”
It’s good for us to wean ourselves off the need to be needed.
fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives and your houses’” (Nehemiah 4:14).
Friendships are not made in the blur of life. They are made in the margins.
This course of life usually enrolls those who feel best when they are needed and who thrive on being liked. These people wrestle with appearances and grapple with perceptions. It is another dangerous way to live. It puts you at the mercy of opinion.
In our fast-paced, full-scheduled world, taking extended breaks is a luxury afforded only the affluent, old, or sick. It has fallen out of consideration as a vital component to success. But in this chapter, let me persuade you to reconsider the imperative of Sabbath rest. Sabbaths and sabbaticals are biblically designed to increase our fruitfulness and deepen our faith along the way.
So the Sabbath rest becomes a command we respond to, not a result of nothing left to do. It is a part of our obedience, not a consequence of our expedience and industriousness.
